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Ethics Expertise

History, Contemporary Perspectives, and Applications

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Editors:
  1. Lisa Rasmussen

    1. University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

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  • The only collection of essays on the topic of ethics expertise
  • The essays are all new
  • Contains analyses of historical and contemporary notions of expertise
  • Special focus on ethics expertise in modern bioethics practices such as public policy-making, consultation and expert witnessing

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 87)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: In Search of Ethics Expertise

    • Lisa M. Rasmussen
    Pages 1-12

  3. A Guided Historical Tour

    1. Socrates and Moral Expertise

      • Scott Labarge
      Pages 15-38

    2. Aristotle’s Moral Expert: The phronimos

      • Carrie-Ann Biondi Khan
      Pages 39-53

    3. Hume on True and False Philosophy

      • Christopher Tollefsen
      Pages 55-71

    4. Moral Expertise: A Millian Perspective

      • Dale E. Miller
      Pages 73-87

    5. The Ineffable and the Incalculable: G.E. Moore on Ethical Expertise

      • Ben Eggleston
      Pages 89-102

    6. Pragmatism and Ethical Expertise

      • Griffin Trotter
      Pages 103-122

  5. Contemporary Applications

    1. The Roles of Scientific and Normative Expertise in Public Policy Formation: The Anthrax Vaccine Case

      • Robert M. Veatch
      Pages 211-225

    2. Philosophers Return to the Agora

      • Kenneth Cust
      Pages 227-241

    3. Ethical Expertise in the Clinical Setting

      • Stephen Wear
      Pages 243-258

    4. Bioethical Expertise in Health Care Organizations

      • Ana Smith Iltis
      Pages 259-267

    5. The Expert Ethics Witness as Teacher

      • Kenneth Kipnis
      Pages 269-278

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 279-279
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About this book

Section I examines historical philosophical understandings of expertise in order to situate the current institution of bioethics. Section II focuses on philosophical analyses of the concept of expertise, asking, among other things, how it should be understood, how it can be acquired, and what such expertise warrants. Finally, section III addresses topics in bioethics and how ethics expertise should or should not be brought to bear in these areas, including expertise in the court room, in the hospital room, in the media, and in making policy. 2. A GUIDED HISTORICAL TOUR As Scott LaBarge points out, Plato’s dialogues can be viewed as an extended treatment of the concept of moral expertise, so it is fitting to begin the volume with an examination of “Socrates and Moral Expertise”. Given Socrates’ protestations (the Oracle at Delphi notwithstanding) that he knows nothing, LaBarge observes that it would be interesting to determine both what a Socratic theory of moral expertise might be and whether Socrates qualified as such an expert. Plato’s model of moral expertise is what LaBarge calls “demonstrable expertise”, which is concerned mainly with the ability to attain a goal and to explain how one did it. The problem with this account is that when one tries to solve the various problems in the model – for example, allowing that moral expertise is not an all-or-nothing skill – then one is immediately faced with the “credentials problem”. As LaBarge puts it, “. . .

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From the reviews:

"The essays in this collection represent both a summary of the debate about expertise in medical ethics and also take the argument a little further. ... Ethics Expertise is a solid contribution to the literature in this area. It is an important topic and these papers help to advance the debate." (Christian Perring, Metapsychology Online Reviews, July, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

    Lisa Rasmussen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethics Expertise

  • Book Subtitle: History, Contemporary Perspectives, and Applications

  • Editors: Lisa Rasmussen

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3820-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3819-8Published: 13 September 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6973-3Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3820-4Published: 17 January 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 279

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Philosophy, general, Ethics

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